Planet Gore on National Review Online
Facing federal and provincial elections as confused as our own — one candidate is calling for a global warming carbon tax, the other for a cap-and-trade rationing scheme — some Canadians have started a NoCarbonTaxes petition, laying out how both proposals are taxes, are damaging, and that they want none of it.
The best thing I can say about the Canadian pols is that, having at least a difference of opinion as to the approach, they’ve started a debate on the impact of the various policies. Here, McCain and Obama differ only on whether to give the ration coupons away (McCain) or sell them (Obama). Select industries really clean up under the former, and only the nukes and a few others under the latter.
But either way it’s an energy tax passed on to you, a sufficient commonality such that the U.S. candidates have decided the voters don't deserve to form an informed choice about the sort of change they want (or don’t want) through vigorous public debate.
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